We start by celebrating the death of two pieces of human garbage.

On Tuesday (2/12), leftie psycho cop-killer Chris Dorner was turned into a crispy critter when the LAPD burned down the mountain cabin he was holed up in.  Nine days earlier (2/03), this monster murdered a young woman, and her fiancé, in cold blood.

Her name was Monica Quan.  Dorner shot her to death in revenge for her father, a retired police captain turned lawyer, failing to get his badge back after being fired from the LAPD.  In his maniacal "manifesto," he tells Monica's father Randal Quan:  "I never had the opportunity to have a family of my own.  I'm terminating yours."

This would be just another case of individual criminal lunacy, but it has instead created enormous educational value.  It has exposed the hideous evil residing in the souls of those on the Left.  Believe it or not, Dorner has become a "folk hero of the left."  There are tens of thousands of Dorner fans on Facebook pages like "We Stand with Christopher Dorner," and "We Are All Chris Dorner."

Now we know for sure:  Libtards are indeed Chris Dorners with murderous evil in the hearts.  Liberalism really is a form of criminal insanity.

And the other trashing of human garbage?  That would be Iranian General Hassan Shateri.  Also on Tuesday (2/12) while the LAPD was barbequing Dorner, Syrian rebels were gunning down Shateri outside of Damascus.  He was a terrorist of the highest order.

Many in the mainstream media appear to be in the bag for the re-election of President Obama. They also appear to not have thought through the consequences of their wishes, both to the nation and their own careers.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and many leading economic forecasters have predicted that we are likely to go into another recession by the first quarter of 2013 if the administration and Congress allow the economy to go off the "fiscal cliff" at the end of this year.

Unfortunately, it now seems to be almost a certainty that this will happen if President Obama is re-elected. Here is why:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's  debt  limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills.  It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies...  Increasing America's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.'  Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.  Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt limit."

These are the first and last lines of a speech delivered on the floor of the US Senate on March 16, 2006.   The speaker was Illinois Senator Barack Hussein Obama.  The full text of the speech from the Congressional Record is appended at the end of this HFR.  Feel quite free to cut and paste the full speech into an email informing your friends of the hideous hypocrisy of President Zero.

Speaking of hideousness, our next subject is The PIAPS - The Pig In A Pants Suit - Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Corporate levy trashing returns

It's difficult to say definitively which tax is the most destructive. The corporate income tax is a leading candidate for causing higher prices to consumers, lower wages to workers and lower returns to investors. It misallocates capital, resulting in higher levels of unemployment and lower levels of economic growth and opportunity, and it taxes income that has already been taxed as least once before.

The 2012 annual rankings of "Corporate Tax Competitiveness" was published in Canada by University of Calgary and in the United States by the Cato Institute. In the study, authors Duanjie Chen and Jack Mintz of the school of public policy at the University of Calgary present new estimates of effective tax rates on corporate investment for 90 countries.

"These tax rates take into account statutory rates plus tax-base items that affect taxes paid on new investment, such as deductions for capital depreciation, inventory costs, and interest expenses." The United States is in the "uncompetitive position of having the highest statutory tax rate in the world, with a combined federal-state tax rate of about 40 percent." Only the economic basket cases of Argentina, Chad and Uzbekistan have slightly higher effective marginal tax rates. The United States...